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F G. DIETERIOH. COMBINED WHIP AND REIN HOLDER.

Patented Dec. 5 1882.

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WITNESSES:

applied to the seat of a vehicle. Figs. 5, 6, andwires rates ATENT OFFICE.

FRED. Gr. DIE'DEBIGH, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COMBINED WHIP AND REIN HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,464, dated December 5, 1882.

Application filed July 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRED. G. DIETERICH, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Whip-SocketandRein-Holder; and I do herebydeclare that the followingisafull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in combined whip'socket and rein-holder; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, which will hereinafter more fully and at large appear.

To enable others skilled in the art with which my invention is most nearly connected to make and use the same, 1 will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my combined whip-socket and rein-holder as applied to the dash of avehicle. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of my combined whip-socket and rein-holder. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same at line 3 y of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a modification of the rein-holder as 7 represent in perspective the several parts of the rein-holder. Fig. Sis a vertical section of the rein-holder. Fig.9 is a transverse section of the same at line 00 m of Fig-8. Figs. 10 and 11 represent the rein-holder as appliedto the supporting rail and bowof the tops of vehicles.

Reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, A and B represent the two parts of the whip-socket,which are pivoted together-at O, forming two chambers, DE, the chamber 1) being for the reception of the butt of the whip, and the chamber E for the reception of a spiral spring, F, which allows the parts of the socket to yield while inserting the whip, and impinge upon it after being inserted. In the socket D, in grooves, are placed the sections of a gum ring, G, which tend to prevent vertical motion of the whip in the socket and hold the whip therein. The partB isfurnished with a flange, H, for attaching the combined Whip-socket and rein-h older to the desired part of the vehicle. Near the upper end of the partB are a seriesofvertical teeth,l,formingasegment ofa circle. To lugs J, by means of lugs K, is pivoted a piece, L, conforming to the outer wall of the part B, said piece L having on its concave or inner surface teeth M, of the same form as that of the teeth I on the part B. said teeth I and M being arranged with relation to each other so that the reins when placed. between them, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, will be prevented from being pulled forward by the edges of the teeth; and the curvature of the parts B and. L, with corresponding curvatures of the teeth, will have a tendency to hold the reins more firmly between said parts. The piece L is held to its work through the medium of a spring, N, the ends of which are ,fitted in recesses O in the parts B and L.

The operation of the combined whip and rein holder is as follows: The butt of the whip is inserted in the chamber D,which, if greater in diameter than the diameter of thechamber, the parts A and B will spread sufficiently to admit, and if of. less diameter than the chamber D, the elastic ring will impinge upon it, so as to hold it firmly in said chamber, the lower end of the butt resting upon the shoulder P. In securing the reinsto the whip-socket the operator presses upon the curved projection Q of the piece L, which will throw theupper end of said piece outward from the part B, so as to freely admit thereins between the teeth I and M. He then releases his pressure upon the projection Q. Thereupo'n the spring N will cause the upper part of the p eceLto impinge firmly upon the reins, which will be held between the teeth I M of the part B and piece L, curving the reins, as indicated in Fig. 1, which will prevent possibility of the reins being drawn forward by the horse.

What I claim as my invention, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a whip-socket and rein-holder, the pivoted semicircular parts A and B, connected together at their lower ends by a yielding connection, the partB having a series oi exterior vertical teeth, I, and the pivoted spring part L having interior vertical teeth, M, the gripping-edges or said teeth I M arranged at right angles in a. curved plane to the draft of the reins, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a whip-socket and rein-holder, the of said teeth I M arranged at right angles in pivoted semicircular parts A and B, connected together at their lower ends by ayielding connection, and havin ga chamber, E, and shoulders 5 P, against which the butt of the whip rests.

a curved plane to the draft of the reins, sub- 10 stantially as and for the purpose specified.

FRED. G. DIETERIGH.

Witnesses:

Jno. W. STOCKETT, GEO. BINKENBURG. 

